'an inspiring publishing company!'

Richard Bright, Director, The Interalia Centre

 

Soul of the Earth launch, Waterstones Bath 2011

  'a network of literary pilgrims'

Tears in the Fence

 

Awen Publications

inspiration at your fingertips

 Cotswold-based publishers of

new fiction

poetry &

creative non-fiction

in print & audio formats

 

'The small press with the big heart'

Western Daily Press

 

Listen while you browse to the Garden of Awen podcast HERE

 

Ian Siddons Heginworth - eco arts therapist & authorLindsay Clarke - prize-winning authorAndrew Harvey author
 
Searching for the Voices of Tomorrow: New Awen Writing Initiative Launched - FIND OUT MORE HERE
 

 

NEW AWE ... AWEN ... NEW AWE ... AWEN ... NEW AWE

NEW NON-FICTION

 

***2013 Storytelling World Award Winner (Special Storytelling Resources honours)***

 

Words of Re-enchantment by Anthony Nanson

 

'A sensitve and intelligent book that demands re-reading, if only for the stories.' Liz Berg, Facts & Fiction

 

 

 

NEW AUDIO

 

Strange Sun - Jay Ramsay & co

'atmospheric, magical, and accessible' 

Southwest Connections

 

'You are an unlocker of imprisoned souls, and true healer... a great gift to our world and the generation who are seeking for spiritual consciousness... your poems spring spontaneously from a pure well of life.'Kathleen Raine

 

 

NEW FICTION

 

This Fearful Tempest - by Kevan Manwaring

 

'His writing extends the reader in the direction of selfhood – that quality that constitutes one's individuality – and reminds us of the limitations of everyday consciousness, but also of how it may be expanded to satisfy the deepest callings of human need. He sees broadly and with compassion. Crucially, he reveals life and consciousness as boundless potential, which is surely the ultimate purpose of all art.'

Geoff Ward, Suite 101

 

 

 

NEW POETRY

 

Glossing the Spoils by Charlotte Hussey

 

'I would recommend Glossing the Spoils to anyone with an interest in Western European mythology, poetry and / or the Bardic Tradition.' Lorna Smithers

 

 

NEW SHORT-FICTION

 

The Firekeeper's Daughter by Karola Renard

 

'This is the book to encourage you to look over that edge, to discard fear and control and believe in your own myths.'

Jacki Woolmington, Touchstone

 

 

 

 

NEW ANTHOLOGIES

 

Soul of the Earth awen anthology

All real poetry seeks to 'renew the face of the earth' - and so to resist the exploiting,banalization or defacing of what lies around us. I hope this collection will serve the renewal of vision we so badly need'.

 Dr Rowan Williams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awen (Welsh) 

1. f. noun. Muse, Inspiration, Spirit.

2. What a bard seeks to receive & share.

3. Quality writing for the discerning reader.

 

 

"I have found this book inspirational and supportive. Ian has woven together a tapestry of wisdom drawn from many sources, imbued with the thread of his own rich lived experience to produce something which is both heartful and poetic, insightful and accessible. It is a book for our time, mapping a way for us to reconnect to those disowned parts of ourselves by nourishing and respecting our fundamental relationship with the natural environment. It offers us the possibility of healing, not just at a personal level but in the wider context to our fragmented society and suffering world. Our need for wild places and the honouring of that wildness in Nature and in ourselves often entails stepping with courage beyond our comfort zones. In this book Ian both affirms us in that quest and offers a light to help guide the way." Richard Dealler, Chairman, The Michael Mary Pilgrims Way